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New NIH office to reduce use of animals in research
Agency plans to promote alternative methods and address “bias” toward animal studies in grant review
Hunt for tree rings could yield Africa’s first drought atlas
Records could reveal how much humanity has altered Sahel rains
Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research
Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader
Are you as easily fooled as AI? Depends what you see in this image
This optical illusion from the natural world is testing the limits of computer vision
Astronomers searching for Planet Nine find possible hints of different planet
Analysis of decades-old data yields a faint, meandering point of light beyond Neptune—but many experts are skeptical
Liberals keep power in Canada—thanks to Trump
Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed to boost research
Built-in safeguards might stop AI from designing bioweapons
Researchers propose modifying protein-design algorithms to keep bad actors from misusing them
High-flying ecologist blurred boundaries, broke financial rules, ETH Zürich report finds
Thomas Crowther has lost his post at the university but denies any misconduct
Modern farming has carved away earth faster than during the ice age
Minnesota study adds to growing evidence of human-accelerated erosion, which could jeopardize agriculture
Vaccine experts band together to counter U.S. government misinformation
Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves
‘A huge honor’: China reveals the foreign scientists awarded rare lunar samples
Seven teams in six nations to get lunar material brought to Earth by the Chang’e-5 mission
Oldest ant fossil ever found reveals history of ‘hell ants’
Unusual Brazilian specimen trapped in limestone is 113 million years old
Researcher of 1918 flu virus takes over NIAID
Jeffery Taubenberger becomes acting director of NIH’s second largest institute
Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy
“I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020
In Vietnam, the health effects of Agent Orange remain uncertain 50 years later
Researchers struggle to document the long-term impact of massive herbicide spraying
News at a glance: claimed exoplanet life signs, an advance in ultracold microscopy, and slashed funds for U.S. environmental research
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A notorious performance-enhancing hormone helps tumors hide from the immune system
Blocking erythropoietin’s effects on macrophages fights cancer in mice
Vietnam War’s survivors shed light on the long-term tolls of military conflict
Researchers are working with people who lived through the war as teenagers to understand conflict’s long-term tolls
In China, trade war with U.S. taking a toll on research labs
Scientists face higher prices and import bans on equipment and supplies
Massive pea study solves last genetic riddles of famed friar
DNA sequencing reveals basis of traits studied by Gregor Mendel—and gives breeders new ways to improve the crop
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